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Scenes of the spiral band running up the shaft

 p138  XXXIX. Sacrifice of the suovetaurilia

A fortified camp semicircular in form with a praetorian gate in one flank and another wider in the right wall. These walls are battlemented, and two tents, one a hut with arched entrance perhaps to be left permanently, both are roofed with planks. Inside a sacrifice is being offered by the emperor dressed.º In this way the new campaign opens as did the last.

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